The new wording of the law on education will take effect on September 28.
The Holos Ukrainy official newspaper of the parliament published the law on September 27, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
The Verkhovna Rada adopted the law on September 5 and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed the law on September 25.
According to the law, complete secondary education will take 12 years and consist of three levels: primary education (4 years), basic secondary education (5 years), and specialized secondary education (3 years), which is to be obtained in high school or professional education institutions.
Children can begin school at the age of 6 or 7.
The 12-year education system will be introduced on September 1, 2018, for primary education, on September 1, 2022 for basic secondary education, and on September 1, 2027 for specialized secondary education.
The law provides for annual allocation of 7% of Ukraine's GDP for financing education instead of 10% of the gross national income (GNI).
The law envisages gradual increase in the official salary of teaching employees to three minimum wages before 2023.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Hungary says it will block all steps that would represent a step forward in Ukraine's European integration process because of some provisions on language of teaching in the new law.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman had instructed Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin and Education and Science Minister Liliya Hrynevych to hold consultations with ambassadors of member states of the European Union on the language norms of the law on education.
Ukraine and heads of diplomatic missions have agreed a plan for implementation of language terms within the new wording of the Law of Ukraine On Education.
Ukraine is ready to send the law to the Council of Europe for assessment of the language provisions.
Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Hungary have called on Ukraine not to enforce the new education law's provisions on the language of teaching.
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